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SUCCESSFUL TURKEY SEASONS START HERE.

When it comes to punching tags in the Spring woods, knowledge is power. So we’ve assembled a playlist of informative videos and articles from the top turkey hunting experts in the game. If it’s gobbler-related, you’ll find it here, along with everything else you need to triumph in Spring.

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Turkey Calling Tips for Beginners

Josh Grossenbacher, Mossy Oak ProStaffer, world champion turkey caller and maker of diaphragm calls for Zink Calls, provides turkey calling tips, tricks and techniques for turkey hunting. Whether you are hunting Easterns, Osceolas, Rio Grandes or Merriam’s, Grossenbacher offers techniques on calling each subspecies of turkey. Not only that, you must take care of those turkey calls. He gives advice on conditioning and maintaining these important turkey hunting tools. Each year, there are a variety

Turkey, How-To, Mossy Oak

Turkey Breast and Wild Morel Mushrooms

By mid-spring, if you're a successful turkey hunter, you've acquired some wild turkey. And if you were really lucky, you found some morel mushrooms. These two ingredients make a wonderful meal when properly fixed. Wild turkey is in no way like domestic, store-bought Butterball. Wild turkey meat has very little fat and tends to dry out if you overcook them. You need to cook wild turkey in a different way.

Turkey, Wild Game Recipes, Firearm

The Bonds Of Spring

Dennis is a legend in my eyes, and it turns out he was best friends with another turkey hunting legend: Dick Kirby, the man behind Quaker Boy game calls.I never got the chance to meet Dick, but thanks to the bonds of spring and my relationship with Dennis, I feel like I’ve shared the turkey woods with Mr. Kirby. It’s amazing how turkey hunting brings folks together.

Turkey, Conservation, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Video, Mossy Oak

Wild Turkey Success Story

In the 1500s, the wild turkey population in the United States was approximately 10 million. As unregulated hunting pressure and habitat loss increased, the turkey population rapidly declined. Wild turkeys had once occupied 39 states and by 1920, they were down to 21 states. The lowest population estimate is 30,000. The desire to recover populations as a source of hunting recreation and food procurement were foundational in wild turkey restoration as was the engagement of

Big Game, Turkey, Conservation, Land Management, News

Turkey Ballistics: X-rayed Gobbler

That was it. I’d died and gone to ballistics heaven. You prove your choke and turkey load work by pulling out pictures of birds you’ve killed? I see your grip-and-grin photo and raise you x-rays showing pellet placement.

Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, Gear, Firearm

Getting Back to Hunting

When I was 16 years old, I quit hunting. I really didn’t come back to hunting until I graduated from college, because there were so many things that pulled me away from hunting. One of the reasons I came back to hunting was because my dad always invited me to go hunting with him. Slowly but surely, I got back into loving to hunt. Now I can’t imagine my life without hunting. I think the

Big Game, Deer, Turkey, Conservation, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak Mountain Country